Martha Molnar
CommentatorMartha L. Molnar is a public relations and freelance writer who moved to Vermont in 2008. She was formerly a New York Times reporter.
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This is a story about two ducks and three people. In the interest of full disclosure, I confess that I’m one of the people.So these three people have for…
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I’ve been reading fiction set in the first Century, a time when few could read and even fewer had access to the prized scrolls of the time – which, while…
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Art can help us see the familiar with new eyes, leading us to appreciate the old through a new perspective.Rutland artist Bill Ramage has for the past 35…
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As dusk comes earlier and dawn later, the lights of the town and college in the valley fill our kitchen window after the first cup of morning coffee and…
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I enjoy riding trains so much I even look forward to substandard dining while staring out the big windows, because the trip along the widening Hudson is…
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“Sorry I didn’t call back,” I was telling a Manhattan friend. “I spent the whole day at the Fermentation Festival at Green Mountain College.”Then I went…
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The hummingbirds are leaving soon. I can tell from the way they fight over the feeder, as fiercely as when they first arrived, famished from their…
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We’ve all heard that the Inuit have more than fifty words for snow. The Sami in northern Scandinavia are said to have a thousand words for reindeer. In…
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Bill McKibben, Vermont’s leading climate change activist, was speaking at Green Mountain College. “We have won the argument,” he was saying. “Now we have…
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Last year, remembering the previous very long winter, my husband and I decided to finally take a long anticipated trip to Europe. Winter there would be…